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Theories
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
09/17/2012

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Structural Functionalism
Definition
-Comte, Durkheim, and Spencer
-how social structures work together to help society operates
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Social Conflict
Definition
-Karl Marx
-shows how inequality creates conflict and causes change
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Symbolic Interaction
Definition
-Weber and Herbert
-how people in everyday interaction construct reality
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Latent Functions
Definition
-unrecognized and unintended consequences of social pattern
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Manifest Functions
Definition
-recognized and intended consequences
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Culture
Definition
-Ways of thinking, acting, and material objects that together form way of life.
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Society
Definition
-People who interact in a defined territory and share a culture.
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symbol
Definition
carries particular meaning
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language
Definition
system of symbols allowing people to communicate
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Sapir-Whorf Thesis
Definition
idea that people see and understand world through the cultural lens of language
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values
Definition
culturally defined standards that people use for what is desirable and good
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beliefs
Definition
specific ideas that people hold to be true
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norms
Definition
rules and expectations by which society uses to guide behaviors
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Structural Functional of Culture
Definition
views culture as relatively stable system built on core values
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Social Conflict of Culture
Definition
dynamic area of inequality and conflict
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id
Definition
-freud
-innate, pleasure-seeking drives
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superego
Definition
-freud
-demands of society in form of internalized values and norms
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ego
Definition
-freud
-efforts to balance innate drives and social norms
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Sensorimotor Stage
Definition
involves knowing the world through only the senses
-Piaget
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preoperational stage
Definition
involves starting to use language and other symbols
-Piaget
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Concrete Operational Stage
Definition
allows individuals to understand casual connections
-Piaget
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Formal Operational Stage
Definition
involves abstract thinking
-Piaget
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Kohlberg
Definition
applied piaget's approach to moral development.
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Preconventional
Definition
individual needs
-Kohlberg
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conventional
Definition
moral reasoning take account of parental attitudes and cultural norms.
-Kohlberg
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postconventional
Definition
reasoning that allows us to criticize society itself.
-Kohlberg
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